We are pleased to partner with Finca Los Pirineos Natural again this year to bring you a special natural processed lot of Bourbon variety coffee. The farm specializes in this heirloom variety; over 80% of the farm’s production is Bourbon.

Once a method practiced almost exclusively in Ethiopia, Yemen and Brazil, natural (or dry) processing is increasingly being attempt...read moreed in an assortment of coffee growing regions, with El Salvador being a particularly early adopter. After the coffee cherries are harvested, they are allowed to dry whole. Once the coffee fruit is completely dry, the dried fruit and hulls are removed from the bean.
Smooth and round, with concentrated notes of dried fruit, baker’s chocolate and brown sugar.

Named in honor of the Pyrenees, the mountain range that serves as a natural border between Spain and France, Finca Los Pirineos is the mountainous divide between the coffee towns of Santiago de María and Berlín.

By some accounts, cultivation on the coffee farm started in 1890, but whatever the exact date, the farm has been owned by producer Gilberto Baraona’s family for over a century. Located in central El Salvador on the slopes of Tecapa Volcano, the farm maintains soil that is rich in phosphorus and potassium, greatly benefiting the coffee.